How Do Computers Read Code

When you first learned to write code, you probably realized that computers don’t really have any common sense. You need to tell a computer exactly what you want. But do you know about all the work the computer does to understand what you mean?. . 0:00 Intro – Where You’ve Seen Compilers. 1:25 Source Code vs. Machine Code. 3:38 Translating Source Code to Machine Code. 9:05 How Compilers Make Things Easier. 10:39 Outro – The Story of Automation. . . Twitter: https://twitter.com/frameofessence. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frameofessence. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/frameofessence. . . Video links:. . Crash Course Computer Science:. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNlUrzyH5r6jN9ulIgZBpdo. . Building the Bits and Qubits. https://youtu.be/F8U1d2Hqark. . . Tools used:. gdb. gcc. . . Monospaced font:. Menlo-Regular. . . Images and other visuals:. . The IDE in the intro:. Eclipse. . Python scripting:. IDLE. . Source code distribution example:. Apache httpd on GitHub. . Executable distribution examples:. Audacity. VLC media player. Blender. . Punch cards:. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FortranCardPROJ039.agr.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Punched_card_program_deck.agr.jpg. . Early computers:. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BRL61-IBM_702.jpg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_701console.jpg. . Complex history of computer languages:. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generational_list_of_programming_languages. . Montage:. Sublime Text. IntelliJ IDEA. https://www.haskell.org/. IntelliJ IDEA again…. . Print “Hello, world!” command:. Python shell. . . Music:. . YouTube audio library:. Sunflower. . Incompetech:. Call to Adventure. If I Had a Chicken. . Premium Beat:. Cutting Edge Technology. Second Time Around. . . Swoosh 1 sound effect came from here:. http://soundbible.com/682-Swoosh-1.html. …and is under this license:. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/